Antarctica

MacKay, Cape

Windless Bight is a prominent bight that indents the south side of , Antarctica, eastward of . It was named by the Winter Journey Party, led by Wilson, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, which encountered no wind in this area.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: peninsula in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Cape MacKay” and “Mackay, Cape”

MacKay, Cape

Latitude
-77.69677° or 77° 41′ 48″ south
Longitude
168.50176° or 168° 30′ 6″ east
Open location code
2VJC8G32+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11047903248
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
6637338
Wiki­data ID
Q2563235
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“MacKay, Cape” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mackay”
  • Chinese: “麥凱角”
  • Dutch: “Mackay”
  • German: “Kap MacKay”
  • Hebrew: “כף מקאיי”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape MacKay”
  • Swedish: “Cape Mackay”
  • Swedish: “Mackay”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “MacKay, Cape”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.